A letter always seemed to me like immortality because it is the mind alone without corporeal friend. — Emily Dickinson Copy Share Image
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
“In every letter, in every line, she saw him. He hadn't changed - he'd only grown into the man he'd meant to… — Diana Peterfreund Copy Share Image
real letter-writing ... is founded on a need as old and as young as humanity itself, the need that one human being… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
“Every body at all addicted to letter writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend… — Geraldine Jewsbury Copy Share Image
And I refuse to feel guilty about not letter-writing either. There are times when one can, times when one can't. In the… — May Sarton Copy Share Image
“Letter writing allows us to be alone yet connected. We need a certain amount of solitude in order to have true ideas… — Alexandra Stoddard Copy Share Image
Letter-writing too often degenerates into a communicating of facts, and not of truths; of other men's deeds and not our thoughts.What are… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“The act of writing itself is like an act of love. There is contact. There is exchange too. We no longer know… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
The Malays, like the Japanese, have a most rigid epistolary etiquette and set forms for letter writing. Letters must consist of six… — Isabella Bird Copy Share Image
“He wrote because he liked to write; he did not abridge, because he cared not to abridge. He sat down, he took… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
Letter-writing I imagine is counted as 'work' from which you must abstain, and I scribble this letter simply from the self-satisfied notion… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“She: I am heartbroken. I don't believe in love. He: Sensitive people get heartbroken. But they should never stop believing in love.… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“All my life I have written letters - to our mother, our relatives, a wide circle of friends and acquaintance, to my… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
You have a touch in letter writing that is beyond me. Something unexpected, like coming round a corner in a rose garden… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I have a Sharpie. I love Sharpies. You know what they say on them? Not for letter writing. That sucks. Now I… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
“where was I? in remarking that me is the envelopes and not nearly so much so, the often foolish letters inside.” — Edward Gorey Copy Share Image
I consider it a good rule for letter-writing to leave unmentioned what the recipient already knows, and instead tell him something new. — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
A letter is an unannounced visit, the postman the agent of rude surprises. One ought to reserve an hour a week for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Texting isn't writing. It's not like letter writing. Texting is short scriptwriting. It's a collaborative soap opera where nothing happens. — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
“The nature of the epistolary genre was revealed to me: a form of writing devoted to another person. Novels, poems, and so… — Amélie Nothomb Copy Share Image
A letter is never ill-timed; it never interrupts. Instead it waits for us to find the opportune minute, the quiet moment to… — Lois Wyse Copy Share Image
I have known many an instance of a man writing a letter and forgetting to sign his name, but this is the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
